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A Sermon
fii i-ura punishment and reward . So much , however , was concealment affected that even these truths , sublime and important as they are , though sometimes more cleavlv revealed * , were much oitener covered with the veil of symbol , hieroglyphic , and allegory . Such of my hearers as are conversant in these subjects will readily recollect , that all the wisdom and learning of the ancient Egyptians , for his
preeminence in which , Moses , the Jewish legislator , is commemorated in Scripture -j- , were conveyed in this mysterious and emblematical manner . From Egypt , the cradle of the Arts , symbolical science , of which Masonry is a distinguished branch , passed first into Greece , probably by the medium of the founder of Athens t , who was a native of E » ypt , and afterwards into Italy by that of Pythagoras § ,
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A Sermon
fii i-ura punishment and reward . So much , however , was concealment affected that even these truths , sublime and important as they are , though sometimes more cleavlv revealed * , were much oitener covered with the veil of symbol , hieroglyphic , and allegory . Such of my hearers as are conversant in these subjects will readily recollect , that all the wisdom and learning of the ancient Egyptians , for his
preeminence in which , Moses , the Jewish legislator , is commemorated in Scripture -j- , were conveyed in this mysterious and emblematical manner . From Egypt , the cradle of the Arts , symbolical science , of which Masonry is a distinguished branch , passed first into Greece , probably by the medium of the founder of Athens t , who was a native of E » ypt , and afterwards into Italy by that of Pythagoras § ,